Dr.ir. R. (Robbert) Kleerebezem

Biography

• 2006 - present
  Assistant professor, Section of Environmental Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• 2001 - 2006
  Post-doc researcher, Section of Environmental Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology
• 1999 - 2000
  Post-doc researcher, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and Department of Enzymology, Moscow State University, Russia
• 1999
  PhD Environmental Technology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, Prof. G. Lettinga, ‘Anaerobic degradation of phthalates, Microbiological and Technological Aspects’
• 1992 - 1998
  PhD student and Researcher, Department of Environmental technology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
• 1992
  MSc Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Research interests

• Microbial community engineering for the production chemicals and bioenergy
• Microbial carbon, nitrogen and sulphur cycle
• Thermodynamics and kinetics of microbial processes in natural and man-made ecosystems

Teaching activities

• BSc and MSc programmes: fermentation technology, scale up/down, metabolic engineering, systems biology, analysis of metabolic networks
• International Advanced Courses: microbial physiology and fermentation technology, environmental biotechnology, thermodynamics
• Supervised 8 PhD’s until 2008

Key publications

• Kleerebezem, R., Van Loosdrecht, M.C.M. (2008) Thermodynamic and kinetic characterization using process dynamics: Acidophilic ferrous iron oxidation by Leptospirillum ferrooxidans. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 100 (1), pp. 49-60. 
  dx.doi.org/10.1002/bit.21745
• Rodríguez, J., Kleerebezem, R., Lema, J.M., Van Loosdrecht, M.C.M. (2006) Modeling product formation in anaerobic mixed culture fermentations. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 93 (3), pp. 592-606.
  dx.doi.org/10.1002/bit.20765
• Gonzalez-Gil, G., Seghezzo, L., Lettinga, G., Kleerebezem, R., University, W. (2001) Kinetics and mass-transfer phenomena in anaerobic granular sludge. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 73 (2), pp. 125-134. 
  dx.doi.org/10.1002/bit.1044
• Kleerebezem, R., Stams, A.J.M. (2000) Kinetics of syntrophic cultures: A theoretical treatise on butyrate fermentation. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 67 (5), pp. 529-543.
  dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0290(20000305)67:5<529::AID-BIT4>3.0.CO;2-Q
• Kleerebezem, R., Hulshoff Pol, L.W., Lettinga, G. (1999) Anaerobic degradation of phthalate isomers by methanogenic consortia. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 65 (3), pp. 1152-1160.